Senior Estates Manager

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Job Overview

North Bristol NHS Trust is seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled Senior Estates Officer with an Electrical HV/LV bias to play a key role in maintaining the safety, resilience and performance of the Trust’s electrical infrastructure. Operating across one of the largest and most complex acute hospital estates in the region, you will serve as an Authorised Person (AP) for electrical systems, ensuring full compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs, and Trust policies.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced electrical engineer who is looking for a lead role in a fast‑paced. and constantly evolving environment. This will appeal to an individual who wants to make a direct impact on patient care by ensuring safe, reliable engineering services across a major acute hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Educated to Masters equivalent level in building services/healthcare engineering/mechanical engineering or equivalent relevant experience
• Registered with the Engineering Council at Engineering Technician (EngTech) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
• Experience gained as a senior manager of a commercial service provider, either in estates maintenance, building services or commissioner.

Completion of an accredited Health & Safety Risk Management training course (IOSH Managing Safety or similar)

Experience of creating, reviewing and developing risk assessments, method statements, safe systems of work and permit to work.

Effective people management skills to lead, develop and motivate teams and individuals

To manage and support staff with sensitive and personal circumstances in a professional, fair and consistent manner and in line with Trust policy and procedures.

Sound project management skills to plan and organise resource effectively, efficiently and economically including coordination of resource and availability of equipment and areas released for maintenance activity.

Sound computer literacy skills to operate, make amendments and extract data from labour, helpdesk and maintenance management systems.

To be competent in the operation of BMS, Microsoft office and the interpretation of AutoCAD drawings.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Act as Authorised Person (AP) for HV/LV electrical systems, providing professional oversight, switching operations, permits-to-work, isolation approval, and ensuring safe systems of work in accordance with HTM 06-01 and relevant electrical safety standards.

Maintain robust control over the HV/LV infrastructure including substations, transformers, switchgear, standby generators, UPS systems, and essential/ non-essential distribution networks.

Lead and document fault investigations, root-cause analysis, and improvement actions across electrical services.

Operational & Maintenance Management

Plan and supervise both planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive works for electrical systems, ensuring high compliance levels and minimal disruption to clinical services.

Oversee specialist contractors, ensuring work quality, safe practices, and compliance with NHS and Trust standards.

Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders, capital teams, external auditors and Trust leadership.

Safety, Compliance & Governance

Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance across electrical systems, maintaining records aligned to HTMs, BS7671, Electricity at Work Regulations, and organisational policies.

Support the Trust's Authorising Engineer (AE) in audits, training, competency assessment and improvements to electrical safety procedures.

Contribute to resilience planning, business continuity, and critical infrastructure risk assessments.

Leadership & Team Working

Provide day-to-day leadership and technical support to Estates Officers, Maintenance Technicians, and apprentices within the electrical discipline.

Collaborate closely with colleagues across Hard FM, Capital Projects, and Clinical Divisions to support high-quality service delivery across the estate.

Promote a culture of safety, professionalism and continuous improvement.

Person specification

Shortlisting criteria

Essential criteria

• Registered with the Engineering Council at EngTech or IEng level achieved via membership of CIBSE, IHEEM etc.

Educated to Masters equivalent level in building services/healthcare engineering/mechanical engineering or equivalent relevant experience . Other non-academic routes will be considered providing professional registration at the appropriate level (see explanatory notes at the foot of this document)

Experience of Building Management Systems interpretation, extraction of data and set point adjustments etc

Experience of fault diagnosis on building services plant & equipment including interpreting drawings and O&M manuals

Financial management skills, including assuring best value, assessment of economic repair or replacement

Analytical skills (process performance, quality and regulatory or statutory compliance)

Diplomatic and calm nature with the quality to remain calm and professional in dealing with challenging situations (unhappy or angry customers, disgruntled staff or contractors)

Desirable criteria

• AP, AE, CP qualifications in Electrical, Water and Ventilation.
• Experience of creating Operation & Maintenance manuals for clients
• Establishing computer based maintenance resource planning, helpdesk and PPM systems

Experience of undertaking audits and/or surveys

Experience of innovation – implementation or evaluation of new technology

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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

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